Sofia Vuorenmaa
About the Artist
Sofia Vuorenmaa (b. 2001) works primarily with printmaking, drawing and text-based art. She is interested in the event of perception, particularly in sensitive, immersed looking, and how what is sensed is in relation to language. Vuorenmaa’s works build on gestures which, in all their precision, seek to imprecisely understand what is beyond the reach of a defining gaze.
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Exhibitions
Kuvan Kevät 2026
15.5.-14.6.2026
My works build on various gestures that record and restructure visual observations. They map out the area between gaze, language and sensing – the space where it is only possible to see close enough from a distance, behind translation. The works are connected by an ambiguous dot. A dot is used as part of a letter, in Braille, in recording the sizes of sea waves, for marking a location on a map, in Morse code and as punctuation. In my work process, my point of view often settles on the sea, the sky or flees to the horizon. The dot is the knob of a pin or a distance pierced into the darkness by a beacon, a dust particle on a map that points to where one can never get to.
Einladung
31.10.-23.11.2025
image: petri summanen
BFA Exhibition 2024
About the artwork
The works Nightlight and In Blue consist of paper-based prints. The body of work alludes to immersive blue colour phenomena, such as the sea or the night, and to the experience of observing them. I examine the spatiality and transience of blue as well as the feeling of being close and far at the same time. I reflect on the desire to record and create systems for perceiving a colour that ultimately hides from its own name.
When you look long enough into the Sun the whole landscape turns blue. Night – what a true ocean of colours! I write an entry in my journal of morning skies: light blue, dark blue, lilac grey, white, red, pink, a touch of orange. Finally, the Sun rises so early that the sunrise is no longer within my reach.
Semi-dark blue, semi-dark blue. Day after day.